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  2. Red blood cell indices - Wikipedia

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    Red blood cell distribution width (RDW or RDW-CV or RCDW and RDW-SD) is a measure of the range of variation of red blood cell (RBC) volume, yielding clues about morphology. [ citation needed ] Erythropoietic precursor indices

  3. Hematocrit - Wikipedia

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    [clarification needed] [16] The normal hematocrit level is around 40% for adult women and about 45% for adult men. In newborns, it is approximately 55% and drops to around 35% by 2 months of age. In newborns, it is approximately 55% and drops to around 35% by 2 months of age.

  4. Immediately dangerous to life or health - Wikipedia

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    The term immediately dangerous to life or health (IDLH) is defined by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as exposure to airborne contaminants that is "likely to cause death or immediate or delayed permanent adverse health effects or prevent escape from such an environment." Examples include smoke or other ...

  5. Effects of high altitude on humans - Wikipedia

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    High altitude causes decreased blood flow to the placenta, even in acclimatized women, which interferes with fetal growth. [28] Consequently, children born at high-altitudes are found to be born shorter on average than children born at sea level. [29]

  6. Cancer - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, about 90.5 million people worldwide had cancer. [19] In 2019, annual cancer cases grew by 23.6 million people, and there were 10 million deaths worldwide, representing over the previous decade increases of 26% and 21%, respectively. [6] [20]

  7. List of countries by traffic-related death rate - Wikipedia

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    The total fatalities figures comes from the WHO report (table A2, column point estimate, pp. 264–271) and are often an adjusted number of road traffic fatalities in order to reflect the different reporting and counting methods among the many countries (e.g., "a death after how many days since accident event is still counted as a road fatality?"

  8. List of deadly earthquakes since 1900 - Wikipedia

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    The list incorporates high-quality earthquake source (i.e., origin time, location and earthquake magnitude) and fatality information from several sources. Earthquake locations are taken from the Centennial Catalog [ 1 ] and the updated Engdahl, van der Hilst and Buland earthquake catalog, [ 2 ] which is complete to December 2005.

  9. List of European countries by life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2022. [2] [3] [4] The data is filtered according to the list of countries in Europe.In the World Bank Group list and, accordingly, in this list, there are no mini-states with a population of several tens of thousands of people (Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City).